From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HkRxN-0006aC-0Z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 May 2007 21:38:21 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l45LbMQ4016771; Sat, 5 May 2007 21:37:22 GMT Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org (170.Red-213-96-222.staticIP.rima-tde.net [213.96.222.170]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l45LZUdU014532 for ; Sat, 5 May 2007 21:35:30 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FE008D30C for ; Sat, 5 May 2007 23:00:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tungsteno [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 26839-09 for ; Sat, 5 May 2007 23:00:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: from snowflake (unknown [62.6.163.66]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F9218D305 for ; Sat, 5 May 2007 23:00:42 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 22:34:29 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: modifications to GLEP42 Message-ID: <20070505223429.52937697@snowflake> In-Reply-To: <463CF698.6090904@gentoo.org> References: <463CF698.6090904@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_fr57A.4YK8Jm7lqFllXzLW="; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ferdyx.org X-Archives-Salt: a449b81c-91ce-4004-bd82-0ec1f7eaa3a2 X-Archives-Hash: e7aea55fb5252c315ab16f5fbe8f1206 --Sig_fr57A.4YK8Jm7lqFllXzLW= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 05 May 2007 14:26:48 -0700 Mike Doty wrote: > After some discussion on #-dev there are some improvements that we can > make on glep 42. Well, if you're going about improving it, start by adding in the Display-If-Upgrading-From-To: header. It'll be a nuisance to implement, but it'll be far more useful than any of the rest of this. > 1. Priority levels for news items: If we did this users could decide > what levels of importance to filter out. That'll just increase the amount of disagreement about news items because it'll give people more pointless wording to argue over. > 2. Standards for news items: Based on the paludis news item thread, > it's clear we need some standards for what we release as news. If > combined with #1 we can set different standards and give the users > some more choice on what they accept and what we publish. It's quite simple. If releasing a news item improves the user experience of affected users more than not releasing it, the news item should be released. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_fr57A.4YK8Jm7lqFllXzLW= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGPPho96zL6DUtXhERAhqgAKC6c6XXjSoFrLPkPqQdnxmK4jYoyQCcDQpB 6vkZsPrWB2y0DN61i6MQhQY= =ZALS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_fr57A.4YK8Jm7lqFllXzLW=-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list